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4/20/2024
JAMES CAGNEY WITH RICHARD CONTE IN '13 RUE MADELEINE'
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Title: 13 RUE MADELEINE Year: 1947 Rating: ***1/2 In the 1940's, James Cagney went to war... well, not literally... but at forty-years o...
4/19/2024
GARY LOCKWOOD PROTESTS 'R.P.M.' STARRING ANTHONY QUINN
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Gary Lockwood in R.P.M. Year: 1970 Rating: **1/2 A year after Gary Lockwood was slightly too old to play a hapless hippie about to go to Vie...
4/18/2024
GLOSSING THROUGH STANLEY KUBRICK'S '2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY'
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Gary Lockwood in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY Year: 1968 Rating: ***** The greatest cinema epics (from LAWRENCE OF ARABIA before to GOODFELLAS afte...
4/14/2024
GARY LOCKWOOD IN ANTONIO ISASI'S 'THEY CAME TO ROB LAS VEGAS'
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Gary Lockwood in THEY CAME TO ROB LAS VEGAS Year: 1968 Rating: ***1/2 Spanish auteur Antonio Isasi was definitely a fan of gangster films si...
4/13/2024
GARY LOCKWOOD WITH JAMES STEWART & HENRY FONDA 'FIRECREEK'
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Gary Lockwood in FIRECREEK Year: 1968 Rating: **** With biker movies all the rampaging counter-culture rage, lower budgeted Westerns during...
GARY LOCKWOOD GUESTS 'HAWAII FIVE-O: SCHOOL FOR ASSASSINS'
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Gary Lockwood in Hawaii Five-0: School for Assassins Year: 1980 Rates: ***1/2 After playing second-fiddle in Stanley Kubrick's highly-su...
4/12/2024
GARY LOCKWOOD DRIVES THROUGH JACQUES DEMY'S 'MODEL SHOP'
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Gary Lockwood in MODEL SHOP Year: 1969 Rating: **1/2 Grade: C+ Leading up to French New Wave director Jacques Demy's car-cruising hangou...
4/11/2024
CLASSIC HORROR VIBES REVIVING 'THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES'
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Virginia North in THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES Year: 1971 Rating: ****1/2 For American International Pictures, THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES was a ...
4/10/2024
ROBERT MORSE, ROD STEIGER & ANJANETTE COMER 'THE LOVED ONE'
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Pamela Curran and Robert Morse in Tony Richardson's THE LOVED ONE Year: 1965 Rating: **1/2 Grade: C+ After American director Stanley Kub...
4/09/2024
MARIANNA HILL WITH JOY BANG & ANITRA FORD 'MESSIAH OF EVIL'
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Title: MESSIAH OF EVIL Year: 1974 Rating: ***1/2 Directing married couple (and future George Lucas collaborators) Willard Huyck and Gloria K...
4/07/2024
ROBERT BEATTY WITH TERRY MOORE IN 'POSTMARK FOR DANGER'
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Title: POSTMARK FOR DANGER Year: 1955 Rating: ** Twenty years before Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, involving a first-act wher...
4/05/2024
BRUCE DERN SURVIVING DOUGLAS TRUMBULL'S 'SILENT RUNNING'
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Bruce Dern in SILENT RUNNING Year: 1972 Rating: ****1/2 Science-Fiction Special Effects wizard Douglas Trumbull went from making Stanley Kub...
4/04/2024
BRUCE DERN WITH MARTHE KELLER & ROBERT SHAW 'BLACK SUNDAY'
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Bruce Dern in BLACK SUNDAY Year: 1977 Rating: **** At the peak of Bruce Dern's 1970's career playing insane, frantic characters, Pal...
3/24/2024
RORY CALHOUN WITH MARY COSTA & COREY ALLEN 'THE BIG CAPER'
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Title: THE BIG CAPER Year: 1957 Rating: *** By late 1950's Film Noir, the kind of beatnik jazz listened to by the criminals also provide...
3/22/2024
VAL GUEST DIRECTS 'CONTEST GIRL' JANETTE SCOTT & IAN HENDRY
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Title: THE BEAUTY JUNGLE aka CONTEST GIRL Year: 1964 Rating: **** After nearly a decade of Hammer science-fiction, war and film noir... from...
3/20/2024
PAUL MASSIE STARS IN HAMMER'S 'THE TWO FACES OF DR. JEKYLL'
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Paul Massie in THE TWO FACES OF DR. JEKYLL Year: 1960 Rating: ***1/2 The titular scientist in Hammer's usual Victorian era fits the 1800...
PAUL MASSIE STARS IN 'ORDERS TO KILL' FEARTURING EDDIE ALBERT
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Title: ORDERS TO KILL Year: 1958 Rating: **** It's after forty-five minutes when first-billed American actor Eddie Albert sees second-bi...
3/18/2024
ROBERT WAGNER IN THE OBSCURE GOLF PRO CURIO 'BANNING'
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Robert Wagner in BANNING Year: 1967 Rating: **** The extremely elusive and rare BANNING is a 1967 film about former golf pro Robert Wagner a...
3/09/2024
JAMES CAGNEY CAGED UP IN 'WHITE HEAT' WITH VIRGINA MAYO
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Japanese poster for WHITE HEAT Year of imprisonment and release: 1949 Sentence: ****1/2 At the peak of the 1940's, no one but James Cagn...
3/08/2024
DIRECTOR ANTHONY MANN'S CONTERFEIT MONEY FILM NOIR 'T-MEN'
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Title: T-MEN Director: Anthony Mann Year: 1947 Rating: ****1/2 Backed by offbeat, surreal music from a dream sequence... only here used for ...
3/07/2024
RICHARD FLEISCHER'S T-MEN HEIST FILM NOIR OF 'TRAPPED'
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Title: TRAPPED Year: 1949 Rating: ** It's a shame that director Richard Fleischer didn't realize how good the usual good guy Lloyd B...
3/06/2024
RICHARD FLEISCHER'S WRONG MAN ACTION NOIR 'THE CLAY PIGEON'
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Title: THE CLAY PIGEON Stars: Bill Williams, Barbara Hale Year: 1949 Rating: **** Richard Fleischer's Wrong Man Film Noir has a patrioti...
3/05/2024
RICHARD FLEISCHER'S SERIAL KILLER NOIR 'FOLLOW ME QUIETLY'
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Title: FOLLOW ME QUIETLY Year: 1949 Rating: ***1/2 If you can handle dialogue like, after a statement about a serial killer killing only dur...
3/04/2024
MORGAN CONWAY, ANNE JEFFREYS & MIKE MAZURSKI 'DICK TRACY'
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Title: DICK TRACY Year: 1945 Rating: *** The towering, muscular, intimidating and always formidable noir-villain Mike Mazurki, who would soo...
3/03/2024
MORGAN CONWAY AND DICK WESSEL IN 'DICK TRACY VS. CUEBALL'
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Title: DICK TRACY VS. CUEBALL Year: 1946 Rating: ***1/2 The maligned DICK TRACY replacement-actor from the first two RKO pictures was Morgan...
3/02/2024
RALPH BYRD AND BORIS KARLOFF IN 'DICK TRACY MEETS GRUESOME'
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Title: DICK TRACY MEETS GRUESOME Year: 1947 Rating: **1/2 Despite the legendary Boris Karloff playing Gruesome, this is the last and weakest...
3/01/2024
RALPH BYRD WITH JACK LAMBERT IN 'DICK TRACY'S DILEMMA'
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Title: DICK TRACY'S DILEMMA Year: 1947 Rating: **** It's true that comic book heroes are only as good as the villains, even way back...
2/28/2024
ROBERT QUARRY SINKS HIS TEEH INTO 'COUNT YORGA, VAMPIRE'
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Title: COUNT YORGA, VAMPIRE Year: 1970 Rating: **** A hybrid of late-1960's leading to early-1970's low-budget exploitation horror a...
2/27/2024
LAWRENCE TIERNEY & ANNE JEFFREYS RETURN FOR 'STEP BY STEP'
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Lawrence Tierney and Anne Jeffreys in STEP BY STEP Year: 1946 Rating: **** Lawrence Tierney with Anne Jeffreys, the gangster and moll from D...
2/26/2024
LAWRENCE TIERNEY DEAD AS 'DILLINGER' WITH ANNE JEFFREYS
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Anne Jeffreys and Lawrence Tierney in DILLINGER Year: 1945 Rating: ****1/2 In the 1930's through to the 1960's and 1970's, befo...
2/25/2024
LAWRENCE TIERNEY PLAYS THE WRONG MAN IN 'KILL OR BE KILLED'
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Title: KILL OR BE KILLED Year: 1950 Rates: ***1/2 The epitome of a crime programmer with a beginning, middle and end, and plenty in-bet...
2/24/2024
LAWRENCE TIERNEY VILLAINIZES 'NAKED CITY: ONE TO GET LOST'
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Lawrence Tierney in Naked City: One To Get Lost Year: 1959 Rating: ***1/2 By the late 1950's, Lawrence Tierney, who was an RKO leading m...
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